This study examines the repercussions of the change in sociocultural structure in the lives and the psychology of individuals. Psychoanalysts have noted that there has been differentiation in family roles along with the changing sociocultural structure, and that affected psychological construct of individuals. Rather than the neurotic patients of Freud?s time, now in our age we work with more patients with borderline organisation. Specifically the complexity of parental roles and a decrease in the value of the father results in different problems in clinics. ODD has increasingly been observed in children?s psychiatric clinics in recent years. The study examined the affects of changing family roles and the decreasing paternal power in oppositional defiant disorder, often seen in children. Rorschach, CAT and TAT were applied to children between the ages of 6 and 10 who had been diagnosed with ODD. A study of the answers showed that these kids had difficulty in processing oedipal conflicts, their paternal projections were weak and ineffectual, and they had difficulty in dealing with infantile deficits using omnipotent defences against them. Therefore every encounter with the external reality caused disappointment in such children, and the resulting depressive feelings could not be dealt with. It has been considered that the cultural changes noted by psychoanalysts made it more difficult for these children to accept external reality, thus there has been an increase in defiant behaviour in the face of frustration and depressive feelings, which resulted from not being able to accept infantile deficits.